Swan, wind and dizziness - and why Trisport Erding deserves the culture award.
Shortly before the Erdinger Triathlon, we always start squeezing, we keep our fingers crossed (often in vain) that the weather is right.
And we shirk when it comes to finally getting an editorial team up and running ourselves.
This year we leave it the same, we prefer to keep our fingers crossed twice: That not only Peter has an understanding, but also Corona, the state government (since yesterday looks pretty good) and the authorities.
Because only on Monday, six days before the start, the trisporters have final certainty whether their already slimmed-down competition will be allowed to take place.
What can we do until then? Reminiscent of the good old pioneering days, when the organizers still tapped the electricity via cable drums at Sport Gerlspeck. “It was raining heavily and a water bubble formed on the roof of a pavilion that someone broke up,” recalls press spokeswoman Caroline Cornfine. “The water ran into the cable drum, causing a short circuit, and Gerlspeck's electric shop door blocked.” The loudspeaker also failed; and we had to beg for electricity from the SZ. "
Trisportspeople have known how dangerous aerosols can be for much longer than we half-specialists in corona. Before the swim start, there had been such a violent thunderstorm that a film of water floated over the pond. What if it goes on like this? Even athletes' lungs do not find it good if you inhale these aerosols, said the water watch and forbade the start. “It's good that we have a few air traffic controllers in the club,” says Cornfine. A call to the tower, the weather report came and the all-clear for the next few hours. The athletes were allowed into the water on time.
The weather was often less gracious. "Once a violent storm front swept all of the catering off the tables," says Cornfine.
Pavilions and tables were blown over.
"The prepared cakes and fruit platters were just enough for the last finisher to get something."
The athletes at the last city triathlon so far had a completely different problem, because dad and mom Schwan blocked the running route with their crowd of children.
A very courageous functionary drove the feathered family away by bicycle.
On the other hand, why athletes repeatedly try to shorten the running route without need is a mystery even to the most hardened marshals.
But there is no pardon: if you want to cross the finish line after two and a half kilometers instead of five, you will be sent to the second lap.
It's also nice when you can experience the cheers on the roadside twice.
Only one resident sees it a little differently: because a drummer was standing directly under his window, he called the police.
But she couldn't understand a word on the phone - the drumming was too loud.
Cornfine: "The musicians are now in a different position, but despite repeated apologies, the Lord still doesn't like us."
Let's get to the happy ends: There is the gentleman "who would not necessarily have been given an Olympic distance," as Cornfine admitted. In fact, he was the last athlete to arrive, and - this is tradition - he was accompanied by running track boss Franz Groß. He told him that he was a fan of Lothar Leder and had therefore participated. What he didn't know: his star was waiting for him at the finish and presented the final finisher with a tankard of wheat beer. Cornfine: "It was totally flat - in two ways."
And what comes after such a happy ending? The traditional nightcap in the Erdinger Weißbräu. “The last helpers often don't arrive until after 10 p.m.,” says Cornfine. And once even that was too early. Because no sooner was the wheat beer poured than the call came: “There is still material at the Kronthaler Weiher.” So the party was over. Back to the pond!
Trisporters could make a little book out of these stories and receive the Erdinger Culture Prize for it. Was a joke. So that with the little book. The tri-athletes definitely deserved the culture award. What this club does - in normal years - at the city triathlon and city run in Erding is ultimately not just a great competition, but a total work of art made up of sport in harmony with nature, music, general happiness and - take a look at the field of participants and the spectators on the edge - international connection.
